Ford Chairman Bill Ford’s vision of a greener auto industry is finally on the horizon

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Bill Ford has served as the environmental conscience of the auto industry. It's something that until recently was taboo in a business reliant on fossil fuels.

Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, said the company's support of California's emissions standards and the Paris Climate Agreement were two of the most recent examples of Bill Ford's leadership in the industry.

Bill Ford said it's ultimately up to consumers to decide just how quickly EV adoption will occur, but more investment and new products will help. Ford's current lineup includes plug-in hybrid electric vehicles with gasoline engines as well as the Mustang Mach-E crossover – its only EV. Ford Motor Executive Chairman Bill Ford, left, and actor Idris Elba next to Ford's all-electric Mustang Mach-E GT SUV at Jet Center Los Angeles in Hawthorne, California on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019. Elba, who previously worked at Ford Motor Co. in the 1980s, helped introduce the vehicle to the public.Ford has at least two additional EVs coming by mid-next year – a commercial van later this year and an electric version of the.

"I mean clearly look at a company like Tesla, which is a very young company, and they've done incredibly well. There will be others like that."

 

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EV cars even up to Tesla range are still 2nd car, a great and trouble free second car. But until they get 1000 miles range. 2nd car.

What are you going to do with the 20M expired batteries each year?

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